Books: Spectacular Nunnery

No place for a nunnery was General Toda Rai's palace at Mopu. The
soaring bulk of Kanchenjunga opposite, surrounded by lesser peaks of
the Himalayas, gave it far too spectacular an outlook, and no
alterations could remove the memories of the women for whom it had been
built. Nevertheless, the squat little general's offer was gratefully
accepted by an Anglican sisterhood. Why the nuns left before the rains
came, Rumer Godden tells in Black Narcissus.

Sister Clodagh, the Superior, found no trouble in keeping herself and
the other four nuns busy. Anxious to help, the general bribed...